

What Happens in Vegas

During a wild vacation in Las Vegas, career woman Joy McNally and playboy Jack Fuller come to the sober realization that they have married each other after a night of drunken abandon. They are then compelled, for legal reasons, to live life as a couple for a limited period of time. At stake is a large amount of money.
_Vegas_ is a formulistic romantic comedy that does not stray far from the etched in stone script that has had 257 other movies made just like this one. We cover every base here with the newlyweds trying to force the other to renege on their commitment to the judge of trying to make the marriage work for a period of 6 months. Shockingly, they start to develop real feelings for each other. Then...well you probably know what happens already. A trio of surprisingly toned down performances actually save this film. Dennis Miller as Judge Whopper was excellent and timely as lately in the news some judges have been rendering some very crazy rulings. Queen Latifah was also very subdued as Dr. Twitchell the marriage counselor. The biggest shock was having an _SNL_ cast member Jason Sudeikis play the most non-funny part in the film. I thought those 3 were great. Watch this if you must, but trust me, you have already seen it before.